Famous Quotes & Sayings

Conan O'Brien

The U.S. unemployment rate is the lowest it's been in nearly seven years. The job sector that has seen the most growth is in the field of Republican presidential candidates.

Conan O'Brien

The big story today, Barack Obama was accused of insulting Sarah Palin when he criticized Republican policies by saying, you can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig. Political experts say that if Obama keeps insulting Palin, he could lose the election and win a job at MSNBC.

Conan O'Brien

The turkey that President Obama will pardon this Thanksgiving is from California. The turkey said, "I don't need a pardon. I need a job.'

Conan O'Brien

According to a new study, most men would like women to occasionally pick up the check. The study also found that most women would occasionally like to be paid as much as men for doing the same job.

Conan O'Brien

This week Apple stores are holding free computer programming classes for children. Or as that's called in China, a job fair.

Conan O'Brien

California had its first medical marijuana job fair. Over 2 million people meant to show up.

Dwyane Wade

I'm a playmaker, and I'm going to score. At the end of the day, my job is to put the ball in the basket.

Dwyane Wade

My job, my whole life, I've always had that kind of doubter, people have always doubted me. And I don't know how I would succeed without it. So I welcome it, and it gives me a challenge, and I will see if I can live up to my challenge.

Dwyane Wade

I got a rhythm going. The guys just did a good job of putting the ball in my hands.

Dwight L. Moody

You can always tell when a man is a great ways from God--he is always talking about himself, how good he is. But the moment he sees God by the eye of faith, he is down on his knees, and, like Job, he cries, "Behold I am vile.

Dwight L. Moody

I'd rather get ten men to do the job than to do the job of ten men.

Courtney Love

I don't watch reality TV much, but sometimes I'll be on the E! channel and see that show "Total Divas", about female wrestlers. It's like, fake tits are de rigueur. Nose jobs are de rigueur. Exaggerated asses are de rigueur. Twerking is de rigueur.

Courtney Love

The minute I got skinny and got a nose job and became photogenic, and all of a sudden I had a bidding war, and every boy I ever wanted, wanted me.

Courtney Love

Being a rock widow is not my job, so I would hire people to do it for me.

Colin Quinn

That's the beauty of being a comedian - it's the one job you're allowed to do that. We're lucky. We're really lucky.

Colin Quinn

People's - most people's job is talking about the future or like money not even in the present tense. It's not even paper.

Colin Powell

I have always tried to do my job in a way that I have people give me different points of view.

Colin Powell

The best way to create a winning team is to train them, give them everything they need to get the job done and second, make sure they know what the job is and what the job will be. So you connect strategy to resources.

Colin Powell

Every human endeavor has leaders and followers, and your job as a leader is to inspire.

Bill Maher

Herman Cain answered the Wall Street protesters, and he had a message for these protesters. He said, 'If you don't have a job, if you're not rich, don't blame Wall Street, don't blame the banks, blame yourself.' And a nation of out of work teabaggers said, 'Yeah! Hey, wait a minute.'

One of my first jobs was doing children's theater. I did it to get my union card.

Anne Lamott

Anything you say from your heart to God is a prayer. But "why" is rarely a useful question. When Job keeps asking God why he has had such loss and suffering, God says, "You wouldn't understand." I always want to know why, and I almost never have a good answer.

Anne Lamott

We write to expose the unexposed. If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. The writer's job is to turn the unspeakable into words - not just into any words, but if we can, into rhythm and blues.

Anne Lamott

Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit.

Ann Widdecombe

We also heard the usual old nonsense that banning hunting would affect employment if we abolished crime we would put all the police out of work. If we abolished ill-health we would put all the nurses and doctors out of work. Will anybody argue that we should preserve crime and ill-health in order to keep people in jobs?

Anna Chancellor

I went for endless auditions for tiny parts in obscure plays, and never got one job until I was in 'Four Weddings'.

Anna Chancellor

I do try and curb my mouth, but I find it really hard. I wonder how many jobs I've talked myself out of!

Anna Camp

I started doing regional theater. My first job was 'The Importance of Being Earnest' at Dallas Theater Center.

Anna Chlumsky

Some people are really good at their jobs, some people are really bad.

Andy Roddick

Tennis analyst is the easiest job in the world because whatever the person does, if it works you just say that's what's good, and if it doesn't work, you guys go, 'He should have done the other things.'.It just doesn't take much thought. If I'm grinding and I'm winning, you guys are like, 'He's reinvented himself.' If I'm playing like crap and pushing, then, you know, 'He's horrible and he needs to hit the ball.'

Andy Roddick

I'm convinced being a tennis analyst is the easiest job in the world.

Andy Roddick

Umpiring, the only job in the world where you can screw up on a daily basis and still have one!

Alben W. Barkley

...the best definition that I heard of that is that a bureaucrat is a Democrat who has a job that a Republican wants.